The Reckoning

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In the aftermath of the Great Plague and amidst the subsequent witch-hunts against women, a young widow grapples with the tragic death of her husband in a society completely consumed by fear and death. Because she rejects the advances of her landlord, she is falsely accused of being a witch and thrown in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She must endure physical persecution at the hands of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter and face her own inner demons as the devil himself starts to work his way into her mind.

After her husband’s death leaves her vulnerable to a paranoid society, a young widow must fight to prove her innocence against baseless accusations of witchcraft. This period piece captures the suffocating terror of a landscape ruled by religious hysteria and relentless cruelty.

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